HK 3 weeks Day 4 20210301

Day 1

try to settle, clean everything with a cleaning pad.😂

is it necessary???

Day 2

Not feel good in mood, took psychiatric med to sleep. 

Day 3

Not good to wake up, headache, negative thinking. 在雲霧中  😔😔

drink coffee to wake me up, watch TV

until took Stress relief to be better. do some more exercise

Day 4 20210301

weather: cloudy     mood: medium

long time didn't write a blog.

just want to write a diary to record my feeling.

Thank God, after I took the stress relief, feel better. not only to think to be locked, is to think how to use these 3 weeks: devotion, relationship with God, future plan...

how to enjoy these 3 weeks of annual leave for the last few years 😘

- 每日與主同行: 羅馬書, 20210301

- Daily Bread

- 王明道

恩雨之聲:

耶和華是我的牧者,我必不至缺乏 詩23:1😇

馬俊偉:

適應之後,將它轉變, 找到喜樂的角度來看,很重要. 否則,會被負面情緒影響,被陰暗,黑暗的力量,被那些帶著走.當這些不好的情緒充斥心裡,你所見會更黑暗,更不滿,更不開心,更低落.

要settle, but not settle 'down' be humble, 

soul corner / spiritual corner-cross: talk with God Father

有A plan, 有B plan.

2021: 水plant 魚菜共生.

進修: 自修-英文,有 organic種植

前瞻,放大視野, 

重點:這些事令人開心.

承認不開心, 將不開心抒發出去, 透過禱告,將憂慮,情感 交託天父

EQ, AQ- 對逆景處理,

Free to enjoy life

 把手握緊,什麼也沒想有;把手張開,擁有的是一切.

Car accident in 26 Nov 2010

I had a car crash 26 November, 2011 when I drove from Highland Park to home at 5.00pm.Actually, I was hit by a Ford Courier on that day.

I lost my conscious at that moment. On that day, Tommy needed the church van, so we swapped it and I drove his one, Mr and Mrs Yuen's car. The car should be written off, and I am waiting the report from assessor. Fortunately, I am alright.
Thank God, I don't have any serious hurt, I was reported from the X ray that I was only injured my cervical vertebra and wear a collar now.

alice in the super-wonderland again!

A difficult time, a difficult week!!!

When I came back from HK this week, I had different appointments for different type of doctors: Monday: GP Tue: Chiropractor Wed: specialist for Gastro.... Thur: Morning: Mercy Hospital for Endoscopy of my stomach. But The blood pressure was quite low that the nurse took two times of that. Thanks God, the report is normal. The doctor said that the blood which I lost it still need a few weeks to recover. : [ afternoon: Auckland Concussion Service Before that, I thought I was alright from the car accident only lost that part of memory. Unfortunately, it was not. When the nurse and OT ask me to fill in the chart about my physical problem which I felt that I was peeling to see through and deep inside. While they asked me about anybody help when I got back my conscious, I answer 'NO' in rudely, I collapsed and cried nearly to use half box of tissue paper. Finally, they will arrange a team, 20 people, to have another 2 appointments next week to look after at me. I don't know it's a good news or not??? It let me face the real problem that I always think that I am strong and tough enough to handle everything. In fact, I am not and I need slow now to recover for my brain damage ... Anyway, It's time to learn a lesson how to slow down and relax . . . It's long long long . .. ... time Thanks God, I still can survive in the wonderland!!! alice

What is the meaning of holiday?

During the holiday, I still haven't any holiday mood or I can simply say that everyday is my holiday.
In the school time, I was busy for the assignment and organized the church's things at the same time. I was too much pressure to handle them together and sometimes felt moody. too
Now I am in the school holiday, but my brain still work to prepare and to arrange the things in this year. It seems busy but it were fleshed out in everyday.
I have family and friends and many of my friends are come from church. Therefore, it's difficult to divide where and when it's my personal time or church/working time.
For example, I watched a 3D movie with some Sunday School students. I enjoyed the movie and also enjoyed to lead them to there and let them know that some body are care of them, especially our Lord Father cares them too.
: )

New Year - New Plan -New Challeging

In 2011, I must improve my English, especially the written English to prepare for the paper in this challenging year.
Try to flow idea first same as teacher taught in last semester, no matter any grammar or structure mistake or error. Try to let me have confidence to start!

Hope it's a good start, good practice no matter what will the result is?
Basically, I try first rather than to stay at the same pace!!! : (
or

: ) always in the wonderland!!!

Speaking Portfolio_4_ ADS

Date: 14 May, 2010

Time: 2.00pm approx. 2 hours

Place: Auckland Deaf Society
164 Balmoral Road, Balmoral

Main topic:
- Sound system: for hearing aids people
Learn how to operate after new installation

The conversation was focus on how to operate the new sound system in Auckland Deaf Society.
Since my church has hired the hall to use it as a Sunday service for over 2 years. However, the sound system always has different problems on every week, no matter our (normal) or the hearing aid people system. Since one of our congregation he is wearing the hearing aid, he needs the 'loop' system. Unfortunately, the 'loop' system is always not worked that he was quite worried and felt bored during the sermon.
Thank God, they installed a so 'perfect' and friendly user one on Thursday that I went to learn how to 'operate' it on Friday after my class.

I still found out some culture aspects and differences during this conversion.
Firstly, some 'kiwi's' characters are - finish one thing/job at one time. It's seemed the 1 speaking port. which I had mentioned. As the technician, Ian, still had a job in Albany following, but he tried to finish one by one and should achieve his requirement- over 90% good. He is not the young guy who I met before. Since some young people have 'easy come easy go' attitude.
In addition, they quite encourage people to keep the character of different culture, not 100% copy of them. It is including the accent and speaking style. Since I was introduced by the secretary, Trisha Shanaghan, of ADS, we had a good conversation.
Trisha: That's why I brought Alice to be here. Alice is a 'buss'!" I checked with her that 'is it a idiom or something else. At the first moment, she was quite reluctant answered this. She explained that she could speak this quite common. However, if I spoke this, it would be quite awful. Asian should have Asian speaking style no matter in English. But I let her know that I want to learn some more 'kiwi' style things when I listen and knew what its mean. Finally, ... is a 'buss' is described 'lot' of happen like a bee and 'humming'.

During the conversation with the technician, Ian, I learned some phase and ask repetition from him, such as volume 'up or down' on the panel, not high or low. When he taught me how to operate, he said if I have 'intuitive' sense something's wrong, just let him know. I grasped the time and ask him how to spell of that word.
Ian: it's bad
Alice: Why? mm but it's a good word, isn't it? I want to learn a new word!
Ian: it's a good word, it's bad because I don't know how to spell it.
A: I'll check out form dict.

When nearly finish our conversation, I introduced my name again and ask him
A: What's your name?
I: In
A: mm? How to spell it?
I: I a n
And he let me know that it can spell as 'I a i n' in Scottish too.
So, in common conversation, people generally use schwa and lexical features. During this time, I use 'stress' of meaning and also use lot of contractions to make the conversation smoothly.

Although it is the last speaking portfolio, I feel that it's quite useful and remind me all the things which I have learned from class and using in my daily life!

Speaking Portfolio_3_ Lynfield Veterinary Care

The conversation was focus on illness and information of my cat. It took place at Lynfield Veterinary Care on 10 May, 2010 for approximately 3o minutes. The native speaker is a doctor of pet and I was the client. Since my cat was sick for a few days.

I had made the booking at 11.00amon Monday, but when I went to there, the clinic was moved. So I made a phone call to check the new address. Thank God, it's quite close but I was still a little bit late. When I jumped to the clinic and felt appolized for the late, the receptionist were quite friendly to say that "It's alright! The doctor is still in the last appointment, please take a seat." It's the culture differences in my home town that I would be treated and said "p-l-e-a-s-e t-a-k-e a s-e-a-t!" in long & rude.

And during the conversation with the doctor, Beverley, I let her know that I gave some milk for my cat.

Beverley: Cow's milk?

Alice: No, human milk! Beverley smiled and laugh in gentle

Beverley: human drinking milk!

She corrected my mistake in soft.

If this case happen in my culture, Iwill be corrected in rude and loud.

And nearly end of my consulation, I found out that the pronunication through Beverley's was quite difference which I heard before. When I asked her that where did she come from?

She replied with simle that she born and came from England, but stayed in South Africa and Cambodia for a while.

This kind of conversation was not familiar with me. According the strategies from the 'Spoken English in Practice' class, I tried to search some vocab. to understand the background and what kind of sentences will the doctor ask? And also take note and if I do not understand the meaning, I will ask for repetition. (vomit; spit, spitting, spat; swallow; not able to eat)

During the conversation with the doctor, she was very friendly and treated my cat as a human being to let me feel comfortable. She said," What's things happen for Ribina?"Ribina is my cat's name. When I described his illness that he wantedto vomit but it was not; want to eat, but he can't; gagging like something stick inside . . .She replied and felt sorry ," Oooh! what a poor things!"
Let me feel that she was quite care of my naughty but lovely cat. It's a difference of my culture that many doctors are felt 'cold' and treated a 'pet' as a 'animal'. I also learned some phases and vocab. from her. For example, some pawing at mouth-want to pull out something; neck has been very long- gagging/ vomit; mild lung changes and lung worms - something wrong in lung not exactly has worms inside; moulting-losing hair for cat . . . When I told her that my cat spit yesterday. My grammar was wrong, it should be 'spat'. She used the right grammar- spat. If I didn't check this word, I would not know what she said. And she asked any 'foamy fluid" in the spat? I didn't understand the meaning of that and asked to repeat and write down the word. She was very patience to explain that again. We finished this conversation with her detail explanation that to leave my cat to take some checking: gas isofluorane, morphine, x-ray to check any foreign body in his throat.

In the conversation, I felt difficult and nervous for me. Since my cat was quite sick, but the doctor let me to calm down and lead me to explain step by step; she made me feel comfortable no matter my barrier English. Therefore, I didn't use much discourse markers but some minimal encourages- mm, yeah while I was thinking to choose any words which I prepared in my note book. And I learned many new words and new things through this conversation, such as moulting is caused from stress, like human being sickness too.

During this and last 2 speaking portfolio, this conversation is the hardest but quite challenging, reality and emergency. Focusing on coming conversation, I should concentrate the grammar- which kind of tense I should use. I am not able to get use past tense in my conversation.